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Romance and the gentry in late medieval England / by Michael Johnston.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnston, Michael (Michael Robert), 1977- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Romances, English--History and criticism.
- Romances, English.
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Gentry--Great Britain.
- Gentry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 301 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book offers a new history of Middle English romance, the most popular genre of secular literature in the English middle ages. Michael Johnston argues that many of the romances composed in England from 1350-1500 arose in response to the specific socio-economic concerns of the gentry, the class of English landowners who lacked titles of nobility and hence occupied the lower rungs of the aristocracy.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-290), appendix, and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-166921-0
- 0-19-175909-0
- OCLC:
- 890434328
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